Chronicle of Higher Education reports Bipartisan support for States to reinvest in Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Educaiton reports that Dem Senator Tom Harkin and Rep Senator Lamar Alexander both lament the trend of states to disinvest in higher education.  They will propose incentives for states to reinvest in their colleges.  The Chronicle states:

Both Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat of Iowa, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican of Tennessee, agreed that states should take a leading role in paying for and overseeing public colleges.
Senator Harkin, the committee’s chairman, reiterated his view that states largely disinvested from higher education during the most recent recession, driving up the tuition costs and requiring students to go deeper in debt for a college education.
"The steady erosion of state investment in public higher education over the last few decades reflects a stunning abdication of responsibility on the part of states to preserve college affordability," Senator Harkin said in his prepared remarks.
The solution, Mr. Harkin said, is to create incentives for states to increase their appropriations for higher education.
Senator Harkin and other Democrats on the committee also urged states to continue their scrutiny of for-profit colleges and, more recently, companies that claim to offer relief from student-loan debt.